Q 01/05

What illness is Alexa Mendoza being treated for in Alexa & Katie?

A) Leukemia

B) Hodgkin lymphoma

C) A brain tumour

D) Bone cancer

Answer · why

A) Leukemia

She is an ambitious basketball player who hates the pity her illness brings. Spencer, whom she meets in season three, has Hodgkin lymphoma.

Q 02/05

What does Katie do to support Alexa before they start high school?

A) Quits the basketball team

B) Shaves her head

C) Dyes her hair blue

D) Moves in with the Mendozas

Answer · why

B) Shaves her head

Both girls start freshman year bald, which is what makes them feel like outsiders at a time when fitting in seems to matter most.

Q 03/05

Who plays Alexa Mendoza?

A) Kerri Medders

B) Isabel May

C) Paris Berelc

D) Iman Benson

Answer · why

C) Paris Berelc

She was born in Milwaukee and had played superhero Skylar Storm on Disney XD's Mighty Med and Lab Rats: Elite Force.

Q 04/05

Which Paramount+ western did Isabel May star in after Alexa & Katie, playing Elsa Dutton?

A) The English

B) Yellowstone

C) Walker

D) 1883

Answer · why

D) 1883

She also narrates its sequel 1923 as Elsa. She was born in November 2000, making her 17 when the sitcom premiered.

Q 05/05

Which 1990s teen icon plays Alexa's mother, Lori Mendoza?

A) Tiffani Thiessen

B) Elizabeth Berkley

C) Jennie Garth

D) Melissa Joan Hart

Answer · why

A) Tiffani Thiessen

She was Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell and Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210. Lori is strong-willed and competitive, and Nurse Chad is scare...